It’s so slow that the one that Amazon got approved is already obsolete.
4 thoughts on “The FAA’s Drone-Approval Process”
It is a victory for regulation in the air war!
A hollow victory.
Perhaps it’s because I’m a foreigner ignorant of the minutiae of constitutional law, but I’m still struggling to figure out where in the Constitution the Federal government gets the power to regulate drones with a range of only a few kilometres.
Though, as a foreigner, I should probably be grateful to the FAA for killing the US drone industry when it had barely even got started.
If only Jon Connor had thought of it.
Well, Ed, it’s not actually in the Constitution, but the Federal Government has decided that it should be in charge of everything.
And I mean that more or less literally. Wasn’t it Nancy Pelosi who was asked if she could imagine something the Commerce Clause wouldn’t allow Congress to control, couldn’t come up with an answer?
It is a victory for regulation in the air war!
A hollow victory.
Perhaps it’s because I’m a foreigner ignorant of the minutiae of constitutional law, but I’m still struggling to figure out where in the Constitution the Federal government gets the power to regulate drones with a range of only a few kilometres.
Though, as a foreigner, I should probably be grateful to the FAA for killing the US drone industry when it had barely even got started.
If only Jon Connor had thought of it.
Well, Ed, it’s not actually in the Constitution, but the Federal Government has decided that it should be in charge of everything.
And I mean that more or less literally. Wasn’t it Nancy Pelosi who was asked if she could imagine something the Commerce Clause wouldn’t allow Congress to control, couldn’t come up with an answer?